Paint an almond color skin lady with blonde hair in watercolor [white 2/5]

1. Paint skin parts

Step one, blend the right colour for her skin and then test it on the side paper. Repeat the process until you are happy with it.
[Skin color]: orange, lemon yellow, red, brown and white

When the brush has a rich pigment, I will start to paint the shadow areas or paint her from the edge of the body parts. After that, gradually add a little bit of water to dilute, then paint in the areas with higher brightness.

About the highlights, get a brush to wash away the colour from it if it had some pigments. Paint clear water on the highlighted area and use the tissue paper to pad dry that area. It’s better to shape the tissue paper into the highlighted shape that you want. Then, dab the tissue paper on it.

In the end, add a little bit darker colour into the skin colour and paint on the dark skin areas.

Use this method to complete all parts of her skin areas.

2. Paint slip dress and shoes

Step two. Here, I have drawn some mistakes from the step before, just use the clean water to wash it away and pad the tissue paper on it.

Blend the right colour for her slip dress and test it on the side paper. Repeat the process until you are happy with it.

When the brush has a rich pigment, I will start to paint the shadow areas or paint the edge of her dress. After that, gradually add a little bit of water to dilute the paint, then paint in the areas with higher brightness.

In the end, add a little bit darker colour into her dress colour and paint on the shadow areas.
About the highlights, clean the brush and paint clear water on the highlighted area and use the tissue paper to pad that area.

From my design her top has some string pattern on the front, I am going to use dark grey to make the holes. After that, draw the white string across, then draw some dark grey just behind these white strings.

Use this method to complete all parts of her dress and shoes.

3. Paint her face details and hair

Here are some photos to show you that I tested and failed in drawing her face. Any experiments that I have done are very good chances to improve my drawing.

Let’s start to paint her face. After some test drawing, I figure out that the number 0000 round brush is a very helpful tool for me to draw her face details.
All right, I am going to paint her nose and process some details on it. Also, I am going to improve a little bit the shaded areas around her nose.

Then, draw her lips and put dark red at both ends and draw a little bit highlights. After that, draw her cheek on both sides. Then, wash the brush, and paint clear water on highlights. After that, use the tissue paper to dry the areas.

Fill some skin colour around her lips and improve the shaded areas again. After that, draw her eyes, eyelashes and eyebrows. It’s a good time to improve her shadow areas on her face again.

In the end, I am going to draw her hair and let her have yellowy golden hair and streaks of some brown colour. Finally, put some black colour to her hair and eyes.